Quotes About Social media

It seems like we've gotten to the point where our experiences, our memories--our entire lives, actually--aren't real unless we post about them online. I wonder if we might miss the days of being unreasonable.

PUBLIC RELATIONS GOES DIGITAL

If you want to be a real person living in the real world, the first thing you must do is get off the grid. Take the first brave step and delete your Facebook profile. After all, you surely wouldn't want the words carved on your headstone to be: "I was registered with Facebook. I had 101 online friends (and I even knew a few of them). My current mood is: Sad.

More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with web navigation, email access and participation in social media.

For years, the New Right has had little political representation and been treated as beneath notice by the mainstream press. This is no longer an option, especially in a social media world. Its members are smart, they are organized, and, most importantly, they do have a very coherent worldview. Illiterately tweeting "YOUR RACIST" over and over at one's enemies is not enough to silence millions of people.

When the corporate press engages in idle speculation, it's "having a discussion." When someone with a large following on social media engages in brainstorming, it's "dangerous" and "irresponsible.

For the evangelical left, every Facebook update can be a personal march on Selma.

On the one hand Twitter gives you the opportunity to engage with people, which is great, but on the other there are people who feel they can say whatever they want, put poison out there, really, without fear of any repercussions.

I confess... if I typo a Facebook post I will edit it. I know it's only Facebook but it's an editing sickness.

felt that antagonistic indignation that can be pulled off particularly well on the Internet.

Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so it's a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback.

Baganda girls will zoom your profile pic Just to see if you have money in your pockets.

Ladies in a relationship should stop posting their beautiful pictures, why advertise goods that are no longer in stock!

The residents blamed the "Gahmen", naturally. Since the explosion of social media, those "Gahmen" guys have been blamed for everything from HDB flat prices to the price of oil, climate change, the shortage of Hello Kitty dolls and kids not clearing their trays away at hawker centres.

I think most artists will experience a lot of negative people on Twitter but, thank God, I've got so many followers that I'm not able to see them that much. I'll see some from time to time but, for the most part, I always focus on something good.

The age of the Internet, it is said, is the age of the self and the selfie. The world is full of people full of themselves. In such an age, "I post, therefore I am.

I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.

We pimp our precious lives to the infernal gnashing babble - Follow me! Friend me! Like me! But don't ever know me.

How we respond to boredom matters: blindly stifling every flicker of boredom with enjoyable but empty distractions precludes deeper engagement with the messages boredom sends us about meaning, values, and goals. Empty maladaptive responses, such as self-inflicted electric shocks in the lab, compulsive social media use, or full-scale gambling and drug use, may work to temporarily alleviate boredom, but at what cost?

I know many people who defend this, who argue that humiliation is necessary to deter ugly racist behavior, so, perhaps reluctantly, we carry it out. But if you look at tweets and Facebook posts, or at the faces of those protesting Schlossberg on the streets of New York—many of whom are progressives, the sorts of people who explicitly disdain vengeful impulses—you'll see glee. People enjoy watching Schlossberg get what he deserves.

Internet: absolute communication, absolute isolation.

By stirring up hatred on social media. Wow, maybe she's working for the Russians